Author: Michael T. Fournier

Michael T. Fournier is a writer, musician, and teacher whose music criticism includes Double Nickels on the Dime. Bloomsbury publishes the book in its 33 1/3 series under the fuller title The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime. Fournier concentrates on the Minutemen's landmark album, combining musical analysis with interviews involving bassist Mike Watt and people close to the band. The publisher's contents show chapters that trace the group's history and examine the record side by side, including its deliberately playful labels. The Open British National Bibliography independently records Fournier, the 2007 Continuum edition, and ISBN 9780826427878. His approach treats the album as both a set of songs and a product of a specific punk ethic, explaining jokes, structures, and creative decisions without separating them from the band's working culture. Readers of Double Nickels on the Dime receive a compact study of how an expansive record was assembled and why its mixture of brevity, politics, humor, and experimentation endured.